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GAINESVILLE — Michael Frazier II is leaving early for the NBA draft despite a junior season marred but injury and inconsistent shooting a season after he a school record for 3-pointers. Frazier's decision was confirmed by his father, Michael Frazier Sr., and first reported on Twitter by Darren Heitner, a sports and entertainment attorney. “He just felt it was the best time,” Michael Frazier Sr. told the Orlando Sentinel Thursday. “He felt he played enough college ball that he felt he could take this opportunity and go to the next level. It's a lifelong dream.” The younger Frazier's decision comes on the heels of 2014-15 season that did no...

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GAINESVILLE — Michael Frazier II is leaving early for the NBA draft despite a junior season marred but injury and inconsistent shooting a season after he a school record for 3-pointers.
Frazier's decision was confirmed by his father, Michael Frazier Sr.,...

When Josh Keeler was asked to describe the kind of UCF fan he has been while growing up watching Knights football, his first word was "massive."
So it was pretty special Wednesday when Keeler, a junior defensive tackle at Orlando Bishop...

The hopes for a strong showing by the Florida Gators during this week's SEC tournament all but ended Saturday when coach Billy Donovan's team landed as the No. 8 seed.
The defending SEC tournament champion Gators will open play at 1...

Michael Frazier II is expected to be available Saturday at unbeaten Kentucky after UF's leading scorer missed the past seven games with a high ankle sprain.
Frazier practiced Thursday in a limited fashion, coach Billy Donovan said, and will not be 100...

TAMPA – On this cool February morning in Tampa among the hustle and bustle of spring football practice, Dick Tomey is right where he belongs.For nearly three decades, Tomey has wandered the sidelines as a football coach, with the job taking him...

UF coach Billy Donovan will have to keep working for win No. 500.
The Gators’ tailspin continues, with Florida (13-15, 6-9 SEC) falling 64-52 at Missouri (8-20, 2-13 SEC). Donovan, who has 499 career wins, has faced adversity this season and his team has...

GAINESVILLE — Billy Donovan has made reaching coaching milestones look easy.
Donovan became UF's head coach at age 30, led the Gators to the Final Four at age 35 and the first of two national titles at 41.
Donovan now looks to become the youngest active...

Spring football practice is in full swing for some schools across the country with others getting back to the gridiron over the next month.
Over the next week, the Orlando Sentinel will take a look at some of the key storylines for the Power 5...

The Florida Gators basketball season continues to unravel.
The Gators looked to snap a four-game losing streak Wednesday night against Vanderbilt without Dorian Finney-Smith, who has been suspended indefinitely for violating team rules.
The...

GAINESVILLE — The Florida Gators' miserable season has a month or so remaining, with less and less at stake each week.
The NIT is now a long shot for a program that reached the Final Four last season.
But coach Billy Donovan's Gators will bounce back...

GAINESVILLE — Long the heavyweight matchup in SEC basketball, the Florida-Kentucky game had the makings of a one-sided romp in favor of the top-ranked, unbeaten Wildcats.
But for a night, the Gators stood tall and tough during an otherwise miserable...

GAINESVILLE — A lost, unsalvageable season is far from over for the Florida Gators.
With a month remaining in SEC play, the losses and indignities are sure to continue for a team lacking leadership, talent and experience. The only question seems to be...

This time last season, Dorian Finney-Smith was in a funk.
UF's 6-foot-8 forward was mired a shooting slump that would stretch to a month and included a seven-game stretch of 1-of-23 shooting from 3-point range.
Finney-Smith...

PASADENA, Calif. — Running off at the typewriter …
Believe me, I get it that Florida State is not well-liked and the nation's sports fans gleefully celebrated about the Seminoles getting pummeled by Oregon in the Rose Bowl, but the piling on by the...

New UF coach Jim McElwain will hit the recruiting trail Monday, and not a moment too soon.
The Gators 2015 class is in shambles. Losing two pledges within hours of McElwain's introductory new conference - quarterback Sheriron Jones and offensive...

Gators quarterback Treon Harris and cornerback Jalen Tabor were named to the SEC coaches all-freshman team on Thursday.
Each first-year player had a key role during the Gators' come-from-behind win at Tennessee and their turnaround following a 42-13...

When is a loss as good as a win?
Top-ranked Mississippi State lost to No. 5 Alabama 25-20 Saturday in Tuscaloosa and it didn't take long before some began argue both teams deserved spots in the new four-team College Football Playoff to determine a...

The provocative pipe dreams of Bob Stoops, Chip Kelly, Jon Gruden, Jim Harbaugh and all of the other "sexy" names have now dissipated and left the Florida Gators with the reality of Jim McElwain.
When it became clear that UF...

Steve Spurrier is a Will Muschamp fan and wants him to do well at the school where the Head Ball Coach made his name.
But this weekend is different.
"I consider him a friend, a good friend in coaching," Spurrier said Sunday. "I am pulling...